{"id":371,"date":"2005-09-10T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T09:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/index.php\/archive\/new-intermediaries-pandora\/"},"modified":"2005-09-10T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T09:41:47","slug":"new-intermediaries-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/09\/new-intermediaries-pandora\/","title":{"rendered":"New Intermediaries: Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/business2.blogs.com\/business2blog\/2005\/08\/new_digital_mus.html\">this<\/a> interesting piece on a new web-based recommendation engine, I had to think about the business model implications, especially the role of middlemen in innovative music business models. Besides that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a> is a good example of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/index.php\/archive\/mix-match-and-mutate\/\">remix<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/05_30\/b3944108_mz063.htm\">business<\/a>, as they use the APIs of e.g. Amazon and iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this shows again that most roles and opportunities for Third-Parties in the media industry are not yet understood, leaving many chances for business model innovations on the table. These innovations may well be structural (like when such a new player enters and shakes up the value net), but they could also be of a strategic or competency-based flavour.<\/p>\n<p>An example of the last one is e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/starbucksgossip.typepad.com\/_\/2004\/09\/starbucks_sells.html\">Starbucks that leverages its customer relations and standing as a third-place<\/a> to sell music in their coffee-shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this interesting piece on a new web-based recommendation engine, I had to think about the business model implications, especially the role of middlemen in innovative music business models. Besides that, Pandora is a good example of a remix business, as they use the APIs of e.g. Amazon and iTunes. Well, this shows again that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6],"tags":[42,15,26,255,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}